Professor Richard Wolff: Who Needs a Boss?

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3. This is how businesses USED to operate

First comes the true family business, where every worker is related.

Then , if they were successful, they had to hire extra non-family.

At some point, many were satisfied with their success and worked to provide a service/product, and to support their families....

The whole make-money-over-everything-else, and lie-cheat-steal to do it method is a more recent idea.

I think that television, coupled with "Mad Men" style advertisers (post-war) created the mess we now live with.

"Shopping" used to be more simple..

...." I need shoes..let's go to the shoe store and see what they have"....
...." We need food, let's go to the grocery store"...

Are we better off now?.. Were we shoeless before?.. Did we have no cars to drive, no food to eat, nowhere to have lunch, no way to buy tires, get gasoline, etc?

Before chain stores, malls, franchises, money circulated within the communities where the money was earned, where the store owners had their stores.

These days, when you buy that stuff at Walmart, a few cents goes to the underpaid workers, and the rest gets shoveled into a faraway bank account of some unseen gazillionaire, who is happy to have slave-waged foreigners making their products.